[E&E seminars] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, May 8, 2009

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental and

Agricultural History

John McNeill

University Professor, Georgetown University

   “Empires of Energy, 1580-1980:
    Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics”

  This talk considers the links between energy regimes and political  
power in the international system over the past 400 years.  How did  
the availability and use of fossil fuels affect the affairs of  
nations?  In particular, how did peat, coal, and oil help the Dutch  
Republic, the British Empire, and the United States in their quests  
for survival and power?  What might be the geopolitical implications  
of the next energy regime?

Friday, May 8, 2009

2:30 to 4:30 pm

Building E51 Room 095

Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge

  Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,  
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the  
mailing list, please contact Margo Collett at mcollett at mit.edu.


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